Annette Quinto Romani

• associate professor
• Aalborg University

Background: Appropriate body image self-perceptions provide a good help to increase the feeling of personal well-being, thus having an important impact on health. Universities, having an important role in shaping of the future workers, represent an important setting to approach health issues. Objective: This study determined to what extent diffe...

In recent years, school-based interventions have increasingly been used as a strategy to promote good eating habits and physical activity among young people at school. However, little is known about the effect that this kind of public involvement has on the overall behavior of young people. Economists refer to the existence of a crowding-out effect...

There has been an increasing focus on test scores and rankings in schools. However, the focus on children’s standardized test scores has come at the cost of their social relations. As a reaction to this test-centric focus, new approaches claim that nature is important not only for children’s social relations but also for their scholastic achievemen...

Health behaviour among young people has a social gradient, and tends to be skewed in terms of gender as well. Young men in vocational educational settings are an example where the inequality in health is apparent. Addressing this problem requires an understanding of health behaviour and its determinants in the target group in order to be able to de...

Background: Socioeconomic background has traditionally been the most important determinant of an individual's social advantage. Studies have used social class and opportunities based on parental income and education to predict such advantage. There is limited evidence that stratification mechanisms other than socioeconomic background can play an i...

Pricing strategies are considered to be one of the important options in changing consumer food behaviour. As a result, there is a growing interest in studying the effects of interventions that promotes the healthy choice through price interventions. This paper aims to examine the effect of a pricing intervention on fruit & vegetables (F&V) in super...

In order to investigate the impact of parental socioeconomic background on university students’ body image and social attachment, in this article we explore to what extent this relation is reinforced or modified by a third variable: overweight and obesity. For this purpose, the study draws on a cross-sectional data set (n = 980) of university stude...

Parental involvement in their children’s organised sports has increased dramatically in the last decade. Recent debate has started to question whether parental involvement actually has a beneficial impact on child sports participation, and whether this is damaging for the children’s development of identity and autonomy. Prompted by this debate, we...

ABSTRACT Objectives: the aim of this study was to examine if influencing food choice dynamics by slightly altering the choice architecture by relocating and re-exposing the healthy option could increase sales of healthy snacks among young people in vocational school canteens. Materials and methods: a healthy eating intervention was developed for yo...

In a Danish context, elite sports classes have been moved into the educational system. However, moving the selection of young sports talents into state schools conflicts with the spirit of the equality concept on which the Danish educational system is built. In the light of this debate, it is relevant to address whether demanding training has a har...

Background and objectives Improving the dietary patterns of young people in a healthier direction is of considerable societal concern. Traditional approaches rest on the assumption that information an education can facilitate such change. However, studies have shown that such approaches tends to benefit those already complying with official nutriti...

Cream-skimming" is word that is often used in labor and educational economic reflecting that only the most advantaged participate. Social inequality in health is a major issue among young people and in the Danish school system the division between young people living a life complying with official recommendations and those not complying is getting...

Introduction Schools have been preferred for promoting healthier behavior among adolescents . From a policy perspective, priority has been given to compulsory school and little is known about how health can be promoted in vocational schools although these students tend to be disadvantaged in regards to health outcomes . Thus, little is known about...

On the meeting of the ICCAS Steering Committee in june 2015 at Montclair University the planning and completion of the ICCAS 17 was awarded to Aalborg University. The 10th version of the International Conference on Culinary Arts & Sciences was held at Aalborg University July 6-7th & pre-conference July 5th in Copenhagen under the theme Exploring Fu...

Formålet med projektet var at skabe grundlag for en sund adfærdsændring blandt elever. Dette er sket gennem interventioner med sunde snacks på en række skoler ud fra hypotesen om, at eksponering ville kunne øge indtaget af sunde snacks og reducere indtaget af usunde snacks. Desuden var det formålet at øge kantinepersonalets kendskab til, hvorledes...

The aim of this study was to investigate if a changed default reduces the intake of butter among students at a breakfast buffet. Students were divided into two groups and served themselves from a breakfast buffet. The control group was offered a buffet where the butter was easily accessible, whereas the intervention group was offered a buffet where...

It has been claimed that physical activity has a positive effect on not only health but also on school performance. Using data from a randomised school-intervention study, this paper investigates whether different interventions promoting physical activity affect school performance in primary school children. The results indicate that on average, th...

Overvægt spiller en stor rolle i den offentlige debat, mens undervægt til dels er et overset problem. Formålet med denne artikel er at belyse undervægt ud fra et sociologisk perspektiv med fokus på individ- og strukturperspektivet. Til at belyse denne problemstilling anvendes data fra Projekt 3A, som omfatter 1.092 skoleelever i Aalborg Kommune. Un...

Childhood obesity and inactivity is a significant public health problem that also has economic consequences. Therefore, economists have a role to play in determining the causal impacts. The influences of childhood background on outcomes can, usefully, be broken down into the effect of family, school and peer. To combat the raising childhood obesity...

Nærværende notat er udarbejdet af AAU på opdrag af Hjerteforeningen og er blevet til på baggrund af kvalitative interviews om sundhedsfremme gennemført med en lang række aktører på UC Holstebro, Bastrupgaard afdelingen i slutningen af november 2014. Partnerne i projekt Sundere erhvervsskoler er Hjerteforeningen, Lungeforeningen, UCH (Transport/Logi...

Although childhood obesity has long been in focus, little is known about the sensitivity of behavioural choices to measure parental resource constraints. The aim of this study is to examine the heterogeneous effects of children’s (or their parents’) choices of lifestyle subject to information and resource constraints, respectively. We address this...

Literature dealing with the impact of organized sports on children's weight has been marked by a lack of consensus. A major weakness characterizing most of this research is a lack of proper measurement methods. This paper seeks to fill an important knowledge gap through careful application of econometric methods. Estimations are carried out using d...